Quotes About Dialogue

In our prayers, we talk to God, in our Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.

We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration.

Do things that will get people asking questions, the answer to which is the Gospel.

When you pray be sure that you listen as well as talk. You have things you want to say to God but He also has things He wants to say to you.

Prayer is the means by which men communicate with God. Revelation is the means by which God communicates with men.

Why is it that when we talk to God, it's called 'prayer,' but when God speaks to us, it's called schizophrenia?

Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue; God's voice is its most essential part. Listening to God's voice is the secret of the assurance that He will listen to mine.

If you would have God hear you when you pray, you must hear him when he speaks.

Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

I want to have a great open relationship with our press.

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which always presupposes an I and You.

Advertising becomes a dialogue that becomes an invitation to a relationship.

If we're being unilateral, then communication does not happen, the relationship does not happen.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

The relationship is the communication bridge between people.

he talks to me, Regan, I think he will leave you. Do you want him to leave you?" "Yes." "Let him speak,

am speaking to the person inside of Regan now," the psychiatrist said firmly. "If you are there, you too are hypnotized and must answer all my questions." For a moment, he paused to allow the suggestion

People are more likely to be persuaded by what they hear themselves say.

It takes two to speak truth—One to speak, and another to hear. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.